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¿Quién te hiso, Juan Pastor? (Badajoz)
25 Scottish Songs, Op 108 (Beethoven)
25 Scottish Songs, Op 108 (Beethoven)
26 Welsh Songs, WoO155 (Beethoven)
26 Welsh Songs, WoO155 (Beethoven)
4 Gesänge, Op 17 (Brahms)
A thousand sev'ral ways I tried, Z359 (Purcell)
Ah nò, mia cara Elvira
Ah silly soul (Byrd)
Ah! cruel nymph!, Z352 (Purcell)
Ah, how pleasant 'tis to love, Z353 (Purcell)
All as a sea (Byrd)
Amidst the shades and cool refreshing streams, Z355 (Purcell)
Amintas, to my grief I see, Z356 (Purcell)
Amintor, heedless of his flocks, Z357 (Purcell)
An aged dame (Byrd)
An earthly tree (Byrd)
An Ode upon dedicating a building to Shakespeare (Arne)
Antonilla es desposada (Encina)
Ask me to love no more, Z358 (Purcell)
Awake, awake, my Lyre! 'A Supplication' (Blow)
Bacchus is a pow'r divine, Z360 (Purcell)
Bedeckt mich mit Blumen
Bei dir ist meine Heimat
Beneath a dark and melancholy grove, Z461 (Purcell)
Beware, poor shepherds 'The Caution', Z361 (Purcell)
Blaue Augen hat das Mädchen
Bois frissonnants, ciel étoilé
By the side of the Shannon
Canzonetta veneziana, WoO158a No 23 (Beethoven)
Captaine Digorie Piper his Pavan (Dowland)
Cease, anxious world, your fruitless pain, Z362 (Purcell)
Cease, warring thoughts (Lawes)
Celia's fond, too long I've lov'd her, Z364 (Purcell)
Chanson perpétuelle, Op 37 (Chausson)
Chloe found Amyntas lying all in tears 'Rondelay' (Blow)
Come to me, grief, for ever (Byrd)
Con amores, mi madre (Anchieta)
Constant Penelope (Byrd)
Corinna is divinely fair, Z365 (Purcell)
Correa nel seno amato (Scarlatti)
Cupid, the slyest rogue alive, Z367 (Purcell)
Cymon and Iphigenia (Arne)
Das Mühlrad (Kreutzer)
Dentro en el vergel moriré (Anon)
Der Hirt und das Meerweib (Lindpaintner)
Der Sennin Heimweh (Kalivoda)
Die gefangene Nachtigall, Op 11 (Proch)
Draw near, you lovers, Z462 (Purcell)
Dunkler Lichtglanz, blinder Blick
Elvira, anima mia
Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang
Fain would I wed (Campion)
Faithfu' Johnie
Farewell to Locaber (Anon/Bach)
Farewell, all joys, Z368 (Purcell)
Farewell, thou noisy town
Farewell, ye rocks, ye seas and sands, Z463 (Purcell)
Fata la parte (Encina)
Flutenreicher Ebro
Fly swift, ye hours, Z369 (Purcell)
Frolic and free (Arne)
From silent shades 'Bess of Bedlam', Z370 (Purcell)
Gentle shepherds, you that know 'Pastoral Elegy on the Death of Mr John Playford', Z464 (Purcell)
Già lusingato appieno (Scarlatti)
Gloria Patri, qui creavit nos (Blow)
Go, perjur'd man, and if thou ere return 'The Curse' (Blow)
Hark how the wild musicians sing, Z542 (Purcell)
Hark, Damon, hark, Z541 (Purcell)
He himself courts his own ruin, Z372 (Purcell)
Hears not my Phillis how the birds 'The Knotting Song', Z371 (Purcell)
Heimathlied (Kalivoda)
Help, Father Abraham! 'A Dialogue betwixt Dives and Abraham' (Blow)
Hence, ye profane, far hence, away!
Hermitaño quiero ser (Encina)
High on a throne of glitt'ring ore, Z465 (Purcell)
Hoch, hoch sind die Berge
How delightful's the life of an innocent swain, Z373 (Purcell)
How I sigh when I think of the charms of my swain, Z374 (Purcell)
How pleasant is this flowery plain and grove!, Z543 (Purcell)
How vain the toils (Byrd)
I came, I saw, and was undone 'The Thraldom', Z375 (Purcell)
I love and I must 'Bell Barr', Z382 (Purcell)
I loved fair Celia, Z381 (Purcell)
I resolve against cringing and whining, Z386 (Purcell)
I take no pleasure in the sun's bright beams, Z388 (Purcell)
I was not wearier (Lanier)
Ich schleiche bang und still herum, D787 No 2 (Schubert)
If ever I more riches did desire, Z544 (Purcell)
If grief has any pow'r to kill, Z378 (Purcell)
If music be the food of love, Z379a (Purcell)
If music be the food of love, Z379b (Purcell)
If music be the food of love, Z379c (Purcell)
If pray'rs and tears, Z380 (Purcell)
In Cloris all soft charms agree, Z384 (Purcell)
In jenem Thal dort unten
In vain we dissemble, Z385 (Purcell)
Incassum Lesbia, incassum rogas 'The Queen's Epicedium', Z383 (Purcell)
Intermezzo
Irish Songs, WoO152/153 (Beethoven)
Jenny 'An Agreeable Musical Choice' (Arne)
L'amore, dona, ch'io te porto (Anon)
Laura, thy sighs must now no more
Let each gallant heart, Z390 (Purcell)
Let formal lovers still pursue, Z391 (Purcell)
Let us, kind Lesbia, give away, Z466 (Purcell)
Lord, to thee I make my moan (Byrd)
Love arms himself in Celia's eyes, Z392 (Purcell)
Love is now become a trade, Z393 (Purcell)
Love, thou can'st hear, tho' thou art blind, Z396 (Purcell)
Lovely Albina's come ashore, Z394 (Purcell)
Love's pow'r in my heart shall find no compliance, Z395 (Purcell)
Lulla, lulla la, lulla, lullaby
Más vale trocar (Encina)
Meine Heimat (Sobeck)
Mercury and Nature in the Elysian Fields (Locke)
Move now with measured sound (Campion)
Much Ado About Nothing (Arne)
Musing on cares of human fate, Z467 (Purcell)
My heart, whenever you appear, Z399 (Purcell)
Near a thick grove, whose deep embow'ring shade
No, to what purpose should I speak?, Z468 (Purcell)
Not all my torments can your pity move, Z400 (Purcell)
Now each flowery bank of May (Gibbons)
Now hath Flora robbed her bowers (Campion)
O castillo de Montagnes (Encina)
O dear life, when may it be (Byrd)
O God that guides the cheerful sun (Byrd)
O solitude, my sweetest choice!, Z406 (Purcell)
O solitude, my sweetest choice!, Z406 (Purcell/Boothby)
O that most rare breast (Byrd)
O wie lieblich ist das Mädchen
Of all the girls that are so smart
Of the Inns of Court Masque (Lawes)
Oh! what a scene does entertain my sight, Z506 (Purcell)
Oh, fair Cedaria, hide those eyes, Z402 (Purcell)
Olinda in the shades unseen, Z404 (Purcell)
Olládeme, gentil dona (Encina)
On the brow of Richmond Hill, Z405 (Purcell)
Partirò, ma vedrai quanto
Pase el agoa (Anon)
Passo al rogo fatal
Pastora's beauties when unblown, Z407 (Purcell)
Pavan (Moritz)
Phillis, I can ne'er forgive it, Z408 (Purcell)
Phillis, talk no more of passion, Z409 (Purcell)
Pious Celinda goes to prayers, Z410 (Purcell)
Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain 'Loving above himself' (Blow)
Pupille vaghe
Quando chiami dolce, e cara
Rashly I swore I would disown, Z411 (Purcell)
Rejoice unto the Lord (Byrd)
Sally in our alley (Carey)
Salvator mundi, salva nos (Blow)
Sawney is a bonny lad, Z412 (Purcell)
Scarce had the rising sun appear'd, Z469 (Purcell)
Schöner Hirte, in der Ferne
Schweitzers Heimweh, Op 38 (Proch)
Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV36 (Bach/Roberts)
See how the fading glories of the year, Z470 (Purcell)
See where she sits 'Weeping', Z508 (Purcell)
Sein Lauf kam von Vater her
She loves and she confesses too, Z413 (Purcell)
She that would gain a faithful lover, Z414 (Purcell)
She, who my poor heart possesses, Z415 (Purcell)
Sigh no more, ladies
Since one poor view has drawn my heart, Z416 (Purcell)
Since the pox, or the plague, Z471 (Purcell)
Sing, ye muses 'Epilogue' (Blow)
So ell enzina, enzina (Anon)
Soft notes and gently raised 'A Serenading Song', Z510 (Purcell)
Some talk of Alexander and some of Hercules
Spanische Liebeslieder, Op 138 (Schumann)
Spite of the godhead, pow'rful love, Z417 (Purcell)
Stay, gentle Echo, dear nymph, stay 'A Dialogue between Philander and the Echo' (Blow)
Steer hither, steer your winged pines (Anon)
Sunset
Sweet Richard
Sylvia, now your scorn give over, Z420 (Purcell)
Sylvia, 'tis true you're fair, Z512 (Purcell)
The angry steed, the fife and drum invite
The British Grenadiers (Anon)
The Desert Island (Arne)
The fatal hour comes on apace, Z421 (Purcell)
The glittering sun begins to rise
The kind appointment Celia made
The Last Song or Valediction (Lawes)
The lover's recantation (Arne)
The Melancholy Nymph
The Morning (Arne)
The Most High and Mightie Christianus the fourth King of Denmarke, his Galliard (Dowland)
The parting kiss
The sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill
The What d'ye Call it? (Handel)
They say you're angry, Z422 (Purcell)
This poet sings the Trojan wars 'Anacreon's Defeat', Z423 (Purcell)
Tho' it may seem rude (Anon)
Thou soft flowing Avon
Through mournful shades and solitary groves, Z424 (Purcell)
Tief im Herzen trag ich Pein
Toccata – Perle care (Piccinini/Strozzi)
Toccata – Soccorrete, luci avare (Granata/Strozzi)
Tremori al braccio
Tres morillas (Anon)
Tret' ich aus meiner Hütte
Treues, stilles Friedensthal
'Twas when the seas were roaring
Una sañosa porfia (Encina)
Urge me no more, Z426 (Purcell)
Vorspiel
Vuestros amores e señora (Encina)
Vuestros ojos tienen d'amor no sé qué (Anon)
We reap all the pleasures, Z547 (Purcell)
Weh, wie zornig ist das Mädchen
What a sad fate is mine, Z428a (Purcell)
What hope for us remains now he is gone?, Z472 (Purcell)
What tho' his guilt
When far from the home
When first my shepherdess and I, Z431 (Purcell)
When her languishing eyes said 'Love!', Z432 (Purcell)
When my Aemelia smiles, Z434 (Purcell)
When Strephon found his passion vain, Z435 (Purcell)
When will you come again?
Where am I?
Where the blind and wanton boy (Byrd)
While Thirsis, wrapp'd in downy sleep, Z437 (Purcell)
Whilst Cynthia sung, all angry winds lay still, Z438 (Purcell)
Whilst on Septimnius's panting breast 'Septimnius and Acme, Ode from Catullus' (Blow)
Who but a slave can well express, Z440 (Purcell)
Who can behold Florella's charms?, Z441 (Purcell)
Who likes to love (Byrd)
Woo her, and win her (Campion)
Ye happy swains, whose nymphs are kind, Z443 (Purcell)
Yes, thou art chang'd since first we met
Yo soy la locura (Bailly)
You meaner beauties of the night (East)
Young Thirsis' fate, Z473 (Purcell)
Zieh'n die lieben gold'nen

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